Terry Evans – Is there a place for children within spiritualism?

In the UK there is, they call it the Lyceum where the children are taught the seven principles of the Spiritualists’ National Union’s and the philosophy of that spiritualist movement. This was something that was started in the beginning of the 20th century by academics and other people that realized the need. For them it is a way of life, it is not a religion. My own belief in spirit is not just a way of thinking; it is a way of life also for me. That is my way of believing in a higher intelligence or force that some people call God.

I have been thinking a lot about parents of the younger people under 18 that are having paranormal experiences. Many feel they have nowhere to go. Parents have come to me over the years, sometimes together with their children, to have their questions answered. They want know how the spirit world works and what their intentions are, why they visit us. I think it is everybody’s human right to go to someone that they think can help them or offer them insights, whether it be a priest or a medium.

I hope one day there will be a possibility to set up an education program for young people so they can have their questions about the spirit world and related matters answered. A form of education that would help them understand and manage the paranormal phenomena that many of them are experiencing. Of course it must be handled in the right way; there must be a legal framework to it so that all parties involved will feel secure. It would have to be conducted in a way that will not be harmful to anyone.

I have noticed that children with each generation are becoming much more aware. Their consciousness is has reached another level where they need answers to understand what is happening to them. Therefore I think that the time has come that we should start implementing this idea. I do not feel that this is something that you can sweep under the carpet for much longer. There is more to fear by doing so than to bring it out into the open and to accept that more and more people are beginning to believe in the paranormal and what lies beyond. We have to start giving consideration to what I call the forgotten children, by which I mean that new generation of child that is more sensitive than ever before, who needs help to understand and manage their sensitivity and to learn how to use it in its varying forms.

It was not so long ago that I had a mother that wanted to bring her daughter to me. That young person was at the time in a psychiatric unit. I was reluctant to say yes. My first reaction was to say no to their request for help, but how can you deny a young person when they extend a hand for help. Her psychiatrist and I received a lot of criticism for allowing this, but was that not the parent’s and the child’s human right to seek help from something and someone that they believed in? That appears to have been forgotten about by those in authority, but yes, I understand they were trying to do their job according to the rule book.

However, it is time that these children were given an alternative, an opportunity to have av voice and not be ignored because people consider this just to be “hocus pocus”. What they are experiencing when they say they have seen spirits can no longer just be put down to fantasy. It is my thought too that sensitivity equals creativity, so is it not their right to be taught how to handle their sensitivity so it can become a creative force that can perhaps bring them in touch with their natural intelligence and potential. They have an important part to play in the evolution of mankind. So let us begin to think how we can create a place for them so that they can fulfil their life’s purpose.

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